Water-closet seat.



PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

M. D. HELFRIGHQ WATER CLOSET SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28, 1904.

v INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS I UNITED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,220, dated January 3, 1905. Application filed Jamm 28,1904. Serial No. 191,076.

To aZZ whom, it nuty concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL D. HELrRIoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ater-Closet Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in tops for water-closets, including, as shown, the seat and the lid or cover for same; and the invention consists in certainnovel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a water-closet having a top embodying my invention. Fig; 2 is across-section thereof on about line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are bottom plan views, parts being broken away and others shown in section, of, respectively, the lid or cover and of the seat; and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the bolts and nuts.

My improvement relates, specifically, to the construction of water-closet seats and lids, &c. by laying a bolt or rod with nuts and washers at both ends square across the front end and rear'end of seat and lid, so as to lap two or more joints with each bolt or rod and laying square across the grain of the wood and joints,

which enables me to make a seat and lid showing the end of the grain or end wood entirely at front and rear end of seat and lid.

In the construction shown the seat A and the lid or cover B are made of longitudinallyextending strips or boards a a and 5 b, the intermediate boards a 6 being preferably jointed by tongue and groove, as shown in Fig. 2, and the grain of the wood running longitudinally and at a right angle to the cross-bolts, as shown and presently described. BoltsC lap thejoints between the strips or boards, crossing the same at a right angle to the joint and to the direction of the grain, the bolts being arranged near the opposite ends of the seat and lid and being threaded at both ends. These threaded ends of the bolts extend into openings or recesses D, formed in the under sides of the seat and lid and receiving the nuts E, which may be toothed or ratcheted, as will be understood from Figs. 3, 4, and 5, so they can be turned by the pressure of a screw-driver or other suitable tool bearing against the edge shoulder of the nut, as will be understood from the drawings. In practice the strips or boards may be glued together at the joints when united, as shown. In assembling the strips or boards the bolts may be inserted and the nuts applied.

It will be'noticed that I use two blind bolts or rods with nuts and washers in each seat and each lid and arrange them squarely across the front end and rear end of seat and lid, as shown in the drawings. This enables me to make a seat and lid where the grain of the wood all runs the same direction or parallel in the different sections or boards and at right angles with the bolts.

My invention enables me to construct a seat entirely of end wood having the grain of the wood all running parallel, making it impossible for the corners of joints to split or chip out as it does where the grain of the wood meets at the joints at right angles either in course of construction or otherwise, and it is impossible for a seat constructed according to my invention to open up in the joints after it is finished, and the seat or lid cannot split by falling of same on closet.

A lid constructed according to my invention is strong, because the bolts or rods go square across the front and rear end of seat and lid and come nearer embracing all the wood than any other seat or lid constructed with bolts or rods, easily made, because there is no complication, and can be cheaply made, because it takes less lumber, as there are no angles to cut in joining the pieces together.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A closet-seat substantially as described, composed of intermediate and side sections of Wood extending parallel to each other with the grain of the wood runninglengthwise of each section and parallel in the several sections, and having the central hole whose walls are formed partially in all of the said sections, transverse openings being formed in front and rear of the hole and extending through the intermediate sections and into the inner side edges of the side sections and terminating in l of the hole and into the recesses at the ends IO recesses formed in the under faces of the side of the bolt-openings, and the nuts on the ends sections, arranged at points laterally beyond of said bolts, all substantially as and for the the side Walls of 'the hole and at points 10- purposes set forth.

cated in from the outer edges of the side sec- MICHAEL D HELFRIOEL tions, the latter being unbroken at their outer edges, the bolts in front and rear of the hole and Witnesses:

extending transversely the top and projecting FORREST W.- KINesBURY,

at their ends laterally beyond the side walls ROBERT SOI-IMALMAOK. 

